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Anna Deavere Smith Tackles School-to-Prison Pipeline With New Play

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Schools are not always a welcoming place for some children of color. They're suspended, expelled and even arrested way out of proportion to their numbers in the student population, often setting them on a path to prison. Social justice groups call this the school-to-prison pipeline. As Cy Musiker explains, it's the focus of an unconventional play by Anna Deavere Smith, which she hopes will get people thinking about how to solve the problem.

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